• @[email protected]
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    are almost certainly being donated to homeless shelters being thrown away and people who are taking some are persecuted… and hog farmers

    fixed that for you :)

    • @Sam_Bass
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      you fixed nothing maybe where you live thats how it works but here in tejas we follow food safety rules as well as donated unsold produce to our local foodbanks and shelters. if that isnt how your community works then i hope you get to experience it firsthand. i have and without those good folks deeds we wouldve starved to death a long time ago.

      • @[email protected]
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        193 months ago

        Have worked in grocery stores, it just gets thrown out. The level of food waste in the United States is legitimately stomach churning.

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            Arizona it’s literally considered illegal to dumpster dive anywhere inside of a curb and yet they still also pour bleach on the tossed food at grocery stores to “dissuade” people.

            So you can be arrested if you survive being poisoned.

        • @[email protected]
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          In France it is illegal to throw food out. It has to go to the homeless or those stores will get fined.

          You do know most people don’t live in the US, right?

          • @Madison420
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            123 months ago

            You can safely assume American when you see English and monstrous business behaviors. Aside from that I think the US makes up most of Lemmy traffic anyhow.

          • @AlexanderTheDead
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            53 months ago

            The commenter they were responding to literally mentioned the FDA. The US Federal Drug and Safety Administration.

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          yeah as i said though, ymmv depending on loc

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        83 months ago

        In the capitalists west, there are only small grassroots projects doing this. Most volume of that stuff goes straight in padlocked trash when best before is met

        • Bizzle
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          Can confirm that at least Target donates a LOT of food in my area, source being I was on the logistics team and literally watched trucks taking stuff to the food bank